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The Intermediate Sphere in North Indian Music Culture: Between and Beyond ‘Folk’ and ‘Classical’
- Author(s):
- PETER MANUEL (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Item Type:
- Article
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/etc3-y585
- Abstract:
- If in discourse about traditional music in North India, the notions of “folk” and “classical” continue to be widely used, in this essay I posit the existence of an “intermediate sphere,” comprising a heterogeneous set of traditional music genres that, in different ways, shares features with both folk and classical realms. I suggest five categories in this socio-musical stratum and provide brief glimpses of some of their constituents and distinguishing features, including the distinctive sorts of theory they embody and elite patronage that sustains them. I conclude with observations about historical changes in the status of this sphere in general.
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